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 LAKEMBA. 329 large family. He had worked hard for fourteen years in Fiji, and two years in the Friendly Islands, and now removed to Auckland, where he became Governor of the Wesleyan College for the children of Mission- aries, and where he afterwards laboured with great usefulness as Super- intendent of the Auckland Circuit. Mr. Collis, after doing good service in the educational department in the Lakemba Circuit, where he became a Local Preacher, was re- moved to Mbau to take charge of the many large schools in that very extensive Circuit. Since 1854, Mr. Polglase has had the management of the Lakemba Circuit, now very much extended, where he has been joined by his brother-in-law, the Rev. William Fletcher, B.A. The schools are well kept up, and Mr. Polglase, in connexion with the other duties of his Circuit, pays especial attention to the education of the Native Agents and young men. This has enabled him to send forth valuable labourers to Somosomo and its neighbourhood, as well as to other islands of Fiji, to meet the demand of Missionaries, the claims of whose work have grown beyond their power of supply. Thus the Lakemba Mission is not only prosperous in itself, but continues to prove most helpful to other parts of the work, in yielding efficient agents for its prosecution through- out the group, as well as in the distant island of Rotumah.